Description: This function allows the user to simultaneously delete and recreate any displayed elements. The displayed elements that are to be modified DO NOT need to be in the CURRENT part. DSI will automatically identify the element type of the selected element and prompt the user to recreate it.
Details are covered in CREATE ELEMENTS earlier in this section.
In LS-DYNA mode, MODIFY allows the user to edit element attributes (i.e. eid, pid, nid), if the ATTRIBUTE TABLE ON / OFF function in the ELEMENT OPTIONS menu is on. For further description, see the command ATTRIBUTE TABLE ON / OFF in this section.
Note: For one-dimensional elements (beams, bars, etc.), DSI displays the selected beam's property ID and allows the user to modify it and the beam's connectivity.
Usage:
1. DSI prompts to select option:
• If GEOMETRY is selected, go to step 2, if TYPE is selected, go to step 3.
2. If GEOMETRY is selected, DSI then prompts:
> PICK ELEMENT TO MODIFY
• select an element, DSI then guide user to select nodes to regenerate element
3. If TYPE is selected, user has following options to change element type
• ACM3 TO MAT 100 SP., changes all ACM3 link in database to mat 100 beam spot weld.
• DIS. TO MAT 100 SP., changes all discrete beam link in database to mat 100 beam spot weld.
• RBE2 TO SPRING, changes selected RBE2 link in database to spring.
• SPOTWELD TO MAT 100 SP., changes selected spot weld link in database to mat 100 spot weld.
• SPOTWELD TO RBE2., changes all spot weld link in database to rbe2.
• SPRING TO SPOTWELD, changes selected spring in database to spot weld.
• DELETE SHELL THICKNESS, deletes the thickness of selected shells.